Medical Residency/Fellowship Programs

Psychiatry Residency/Fellowship Programs

Colleges award this field under 7 named programs, from Psychiatry Residency Program to Psychiatry Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other.

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Colleges may offer this field under 7 more specific program names. The program you choose affects the courses you take.

Psychiatry Residency Program: Prepares physicians in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental, emotional, behavioral and neurological disorders. Covers psychotherapy, family counseling, referral, clinical diagnosis, and practice management.
Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program: Prepares physicians in the evaluation and treatment of individuals with alcohol, drug, or other substance-related disorders, and of individuals with the dual diagnosis of substance-related and other psychiatric disorders. Requires prior completion of a residency program in psychiatry.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program: Prepares physicians in the diagnosis and treatment of developmental, behavioral, emotional, and mental disorders of childhood and adolescence. Requires prior completion of a residency program in psychiatry.
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship Program: Prepares physicians in the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders and symptoms in complex medically ill patients. This includes treatment of patients with acute or chronic medical, neurological, obstetrical, or surgical illness in which psychiatric illness is affecting their medical care and/or quality of life, and patients who have a psychiatric disorder that is the direct consequence of a primary medical condition, a somatoform disorder, or psychological factors affecting a general medical condition. Requires prior completion of a residency program in psychiatry.
Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Program: Prepares physicians to evaluate individuals involved with the legal system and provide specialized treatment to those incarcerated in jails, prisons, and forensic psychiatry hospitals; and who focus on the interrelationships between psychiatry and civil, criminal, and administrative law. Requires prior completion of a residency program in psychiatry.
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program: Prepares physicians in the prevention, evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of mental and emotional disorders in the elderly, and to improve the psychiatric care of the elderly both in health and in disease. Requires prior completion of a residency program in psychiatry.
Psychiatry Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other: Psychiatry not listed above.

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